A battle of Subtlety and Manipulation

Test results

Letter

A battle of subtlety and manipulation

Chapter one

----Harry----

“What are we doing here again?” Harry asked Bill Weasley as the Gringotts curse breaker led him to the Wizard Bank early one morning.

“The Goblins believe they have found a possible connection between you and an, until now, thought to be extinct magical family so they want to verify.” Bill said calmly as they passed a pair of bowing goblins and entered the bank.

After about five minutes they reached an office that read ‘Inheritance office’ and opened it to find three ancient looking goblins behind the desk. “Ah Lord Potter welcome, you may go Curse Breaker Weasley, I will send Mr. Potter to you when we are finished.” the tallest and most authoritative looking of the goblins said neutrally as Bill left, “I am Director Ragnok and here with me are Stoneaxe from Extinct Vaults and Bloodfang from Inheritance. Are you prepared for today’s test?”.

“I cannot answer that as I do not know what the test will entail.” Harry said cautiously as Bill had spent the past three days warning him about the underhandedness of the goblins and he didn’t want to make a bad impression.

Bloodfang raised an eyebrow at him, “Muggle raised?” he asked and Harry nodded feeling stupid. “The test is fairly simple,” Bloodfang continued as if nothing had happened “you will make a cut on your palm and fill up this goblet and the blood will drain away and will be used as ink on this parchment to say which houses you are heir to.” he finished while placing the aforementioned items on the desk.

Nodding in understanding Harry grabbed the offered dagger and made the cut on his palm and put his cut over the goblet and let it fill up and, once the needed amount of blood had been reached, his cut healed instantly. After a moment the blood drained from the goblet and words appeared on the parchment, when it was done Ragnok picked it up before his eyes widened almost comically before he handed it to the two other goblins who had similar reactions before they handed it to him and he read:

Name: Harry James Potter

Heir to: Potter family (blood), Peverell family (blood), Emrys family (blood), Gryffindor family (magic), and Slytherin family (conquest).

Magical core rating: Average 14 year old: 78. Average Adult: 93. Merlin Emrys: 777. Yours: naturally 250, enhanced from basilisk venom and phoenix tears to 500, blocked to 95.

Animagus form: Black Panther.

Magical abilities: Parsletongue

“What does this mean for me exactly?” he asked the still somewhat shell-shocked goblins.

Shaking himself Ragnok said “Well Lord Potter it is different for each of the families. The Potter family Lordship provides some property and access to your family vault but not much else. The Gryffindor and Slytherin families give you two of the now three votes for the Hogwarts School board and any artifacts belonging to the two founders but nothing else beside their vaults. The Peverell and Emrys families are two of the three most powerful families in our nation’s history and those three families in fact set up our government. Along with their vaults and properties you will gain their seats on the Wizenagamot, they are two of the three great council seats that, if there is a majority vote, can veto any motion that the Wizenagamot puts forth along with their normal vote but they, along with the third family of Le Fay, haven’t been seen for the past eight hundred years.”.

“Okay so I have a large as hell magical core that is mostly blocked, more political power than anyone else could possibly dream of, and control of Hogwarts.” Harry said before continuing almost hysterically, “Am I dreaming, is a talking dragon going to come out of nowhere and declare themselves my familiar. Will I be declared king of the magical world. I am losing it, this cannot be possible.” he started raving at the end until Bloodfang slapped him across the face. After a moment the shock wore off and he said, “Thank you Bloodfang I needed that.” which got a nod from the goblin, “I would like to keep my new status as low profile as possible.”.